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The Father of American Conservatism

Mecosta’s Russell Kirk

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Harriet Tubman

Her Fight for Emancipation and Dignity

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1848 Convention on Women’s Rights

Seneca Falls, New York and the Declaration of Sentiments

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For God and Homeland

Polish Chicago’s Annual Pilgrimage

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Safe Haven

President Franklin Roosevelt’s 982 “Guests”

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Stories celebrating the Laurentian Great Lakes and its people

Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario

McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum

A tiny Chicago museum

Long Point’s Protectors

Managing for wildlife and people

The Birds and Birders of Point Pelee

“Where Canada Begins”

Gene Stratton-Porter: Living Near the Edge of the Great Black Swamp

Swamp that no longer exists

Octave Chanute and the Indiana Dunes

Mentor to the Wright Brothers

Senator Gaylord Nelson and the Apostle Islands

Earth Day founder

Clarence Darrow and the SS Eastland Tragedy

Shipwreck on the Chicago River

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  • The Father of American Conservatism April 2, 2019
  • Harriet Tubman March 2, 2019
  • 1848 Convention on Women’s Rights September 20, 2018
  • For God and Homeland September 4, 2018
  • Safe Haven July 27, 2018
  • Participatory Democracy and the New Left May 18, 2018
  • American Writers Museum April 11, 2018
  • Manitowoc’s Submarines March 22, 2018
  • First Light, First Lady February 9, 2018
  • Father Jacques Marquette December 27, 2017

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